In
1920, Duluth is home to a small black community.
It is a period of heightened racial conflict across
the country.

On
June 15, 1920, police arrest several young black
men accused of raping a white woman. That evening,
three of them – Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson,
and Isaac McGhie – are taken from jail by
a mob and lynched.

A call
for justice, but the lynch mob is only lightly punished.
Two blacks are tried on questionable charges of
rape.

Three
white men are imprisoned for rioting. One black
man, Max Mason, is imprisoned for rape.

Many
blacks leave Duluth. Minnesota's black community
establishes the Duluth Branch of the NAACP and campaigns
for anti-lynching legislation. Years later, the
three victims are finally properly laid to rest.